2011
NT6879 : 'Johnnie Cope's Steps', Cromwell Harbour
taken 13 years ago, near to Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
'Johnnie Cope's Steps', Cromwell Harbour
Steps ascended by General John Cope on 17th September 1745, at almost the same moment that Charles Edward Stuart's father was being proclaimed as James VIII and III at the mercat cross in Edinburgh. Having failed to block the Jacobite advance at the Corrieyairack Pass, south of Fort Augustus, Cope had embarked his troops at Aberdeen in the hope of reaching Edinburgh first, but lost the race. The Highlanders had rushed the Netherbow Port and entered the capital that very morning without a shot being fired. Cope was joined at Dunbar by Colonel Gardiner, whose dragoons had fled their position west of Edinburgh to the jeers of onlookers in the so-called 'Coltbridge canter'*.
*Coltbridge was the village on the site of modern Roseburn. The dragoons were abandoning their outpost for defending the city from the west.
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